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The Need for Speed! Accelerated mobile, beyond AMP
The document focuses on improving mobile performance and discusses the importance of AMP while suggesting that alternatives exist for managing AMP caches. It emphasizes various optimization techniques such as infrastructure improvements, front-end optimizations, and the significance of choosing the right performance metrics over tool-generated scores. Ultimately, it encourages developers to prioritize speed and user satisfaction over hype and scores.
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- 3. @jonoalderson There’s a lotof much- needed focus on (mobile) performance at the moment @jonoalderson
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- 6. @jonoalderson 6 Just the tipof the iceberg... @jonoalderson
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- 8. @jonoalderson Risky? Dangerous? Subversive,even? @jonoalderson
- 9. @jonoalderson Are you actively managingyour AMP cache? https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/update-ping
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- 11. @jonoalderson You don’t needAMP. You can do this yourself.
- 12. @jonoalderson Anyone can (theoretically) createan AMP cache. https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-cache-guidelines.md @jonoalderson
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- 14. @jonoalderson http://bit.ly/ampJS What if youcould de-couple AMP?
- 15. @jonoalderson To clarify, I’mnot saying that you shouldn’t adopt AMP.
- 16. @jonoalderson So, what’s thebroader performance toolkit look like?
- 17. @jonoalderson Infrastructure & networkoptimisation
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- 19. @jonoalderson HTTPS isn’t abinary thing!
- 20. @jonoalderson SSL Chain LengthOncertificate length...
- 21. @jonoalderson HSTS ● Become compliantby adding extra HTTPS checks ● Register for the HSTS preload list (hstspreload.org) ● Skip the HTTP/HTTPS redirect when people type example.com
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- 26. @jonoalderson We need togo smarter, not faster
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- 30. @jonoalderson With HTTP2, you don’tneed to worry as much about round trips... ...but you should still consider what you’re transferring, and how. @jonoalderson
- 31. @jonoalderson For devices... ● Detectearly, and adapt. Responsive = expensive! ● Make CSS mobile-first (build up from min-width); typically reduces sizes. ○ Conditionally layer on / load more for larger devices. 31 31 @jonoalderson
- 32. @jonoalderson For media/images… Test CSS3vs images vs sprites vs encoding vs inlining
- 33. @jonoalderson http://bit.ly/srcsetstuff SRCSET is theonly solution for managing image sizes/resolutions.
- 34. @jonoalderson ...And you canalso use <picture> to support multiple formats
- 35. @jonoalderson base64-image.de You can alsobase64() encode images...
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- 37. @jonoalderson Sprite sheets aremight still be a thing!
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- 39. @jonoalderson Error management for commonrequest headaches Manage your robots, favicons, and other irritations. @jonoalderson
- 40. @jonoalderson apple-touch-icon.png (and variants) favicon.ico(and variants) browserconfig.xml Feeds (/rss/, /feed/, etc) Invalid page/date ranges Broken internal links (and missing http links) Alternate sitemap and metadata urls Breaking parameters (especially on images, from search engines)
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- 42. @jonoalderson Which metrics matter? ●There’s no such thing as ‘speed’. What are we measuring? ● Numbers from Google Pagespeed Insights, Pingdom, WebPageTest, GA, etc, are all nonsense ● User satisfaction metrics > any technical speed metrics @jonoalderson
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- 46. @jonoalderson Which metrics matter? ●Don’t ignore, or get fixated on time ‘til first byte. ● You need to fix the front end and the back end. @jonoalderson
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- 56. @jonoalderson (I’m not goingto talk about) Back-end optimisation
- 57. @jonoalderson Options for handling angular/reactsites... 1. Hope for the best 2. Serve static HTML versions, then let the framework pick up the heavy lifting (using something like or PhantomJS) 3. Use something like Prerender.io (paid, or self-hosted).
- 58. @jonoalderson ● There comesa point where you outgrow a single server. ● If you’ve finite RAM and CPU, consider separating servers and databases. Latency, however! ● Consider caching, varnish, load-balancers Server Ecosystems
- 59. @jonoalderson Server Ecosystems Varnish (staticpage cache) < Apache/Nginx < PHP/Python (memcache) < MySQL/NoSQL (request cache) vs
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- 66. @jonoalderson (I’m going toskim over) Front-end optimisation
- 67. @jonoalderson Caching Policies ● Setyour expiry times (appropriately!) ● Use 304 “Not Modified” header ● Use ETags
- 68. @jonoalderson Resource Hints ● Preload,preconnect, prefetch, dns-prefetch, prerender, and subresource. ○ <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//example.com"> ○ <link rel="prefetch" href="image.png"> (when idle) ○ <link rel="subresource" href="styles.css"> (prioritises) ○ <link rel="preload" href="/styles/other.css" as="style"> (prioritises) ● Pass as tags, headers, or via js ● NB: Rel next/previous automatically triggers prefetch in Chrome+Firefox
- 69. @jonoalderson CDNs are stillimportant ● Localisation is important! ● Latency is a bottleneck more often than you’d think. ● Cookieless subdomains reduce header sizes! ● Use resource CDNs (eg., cdnjs.cloudflare.com) for things like jQuery. ● Your first line of defense.
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- 71. @jonoalderson Above the fold(critical path) rendering ● Reduces waiting time for the browser to download assets ● ...but can’t be (easily) cached! ● loadCSS is your friend (async loading and js support) https://github.com/filamentgroup/loadCSS ● Takes advantage of rel preload http://bit.ly/criticalpathcss
- 72. @jonoalderson (Re)paint & (Re)flow ●Consider how the page is constructed and how it behaves ● Minimise unknowns to reduce tearing and reflow in particular ● Small technical gains, big perception gains https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/reflow
- 73. @jonoalderson CSS specificity =slow paint ● .container > nav > ul > li > a { color: red; } ● .main-nav-link { color: red; }
- 74. @jonoalderson Animation & FPS ●jQuery, scrolling and changing elements costs GPU and CPU ● Consider the user’s physical hardware ● To maintain 60fps, you frame animations need to execute in less than 14ms. ● Transformation and opacity are the only ‘free’ animations. ● Measure with Chrome, and kick your devs!
- 75. @jonoalderson Deferring / asyncresources ● Do you need to load everything immediately? ● Do you need to load everything in the <head>? ● Do you need to load everything on every page? ● Do you understand the dependencies? ● What can you defer, load asynchronously, or load conditionally?
- 76. @jonoalderson (You should golearn about) PWAs
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- 83. @jonoalderson Ignore all ofthe scores the tools give you, and just make things faster.
- 84. @jonoalderson Don’t neglect your infrastructureand back- end opportunities
- 85. @jonoalderson The landscape ischanging Don’t get caught up in today’s hype
- 86. @jonoalderson AMP is notthe end. (but this is)
- 87. GO OUT ANDWIN
Editor's Notes
- #4 Why is performance important? Everybody seen the Amazon studies (and all of the others?) Why is it only going to get more important? Instantaneous is the new 2 seconds is the new 5 seconds!
- #5 This session is for anybody who wants to go faster (either with AMP, or without), but doesn’t know where to start; front end, back end, and everything inbetween.
- #7 The AMP project in particular has pushed performance forward (not without politics)... (AND, there may be good reasons why you don’t want to use AMP, but still want the benefits).
- #9 Not a magic bullet. Walled gardens and dependency on Google, poor implementation. Yet another language/framework to maintain (for them, and for us). Deprecation? Invalid code? Security? Pinging, caching. Pros and cons? Control! Ownership! Are there alternatives?
- #10 Have to ping to manage versions
- #11 But no guarantees; flakey!
- #14 Other people are getting involved. But is it enough?...AND… their implementation is a little… odd… not easy to do your own amp cache, as you need to host and maintain your own version of the amp library# no guarantees your amp cache is used by third parties such as search engines
- #15 What’s your motivation for adopting AMP; the performance, or access to the sandpit? You can have all the performance advantages without having to be in the cache, etc.
- #16 But it’s a choice, with implications. And there are other options. But it’s also the tip of the iceberg; if your goal is performance, there are a million other things you can do.
- #19 HTTPS is mandatory. Security. Performance. Acceptance. This thinking assumes that you’re already compliant, or are about to be. No reason not to (ad platforms, etc) “HTTPS is slower!” - the myth of secure handshake bottlenecks
- #20 Not binary!
- #21 Cheap certs often = long chains! Cloudflare = shared/cheap Let’s Encrypt; install in/on server. Also, cPanel now DIY’s, too. Better certs = closer to trusted sources, and also better liabilities
- #25 Still bottlenecks based on the number of assets you’re loading, the size of those, where they’re hosted, etc.
- #26 Still bottlenecks based on the number of assets you’re loading, the size of those, where they’re hosted, etc.
- #28 Apache config, or automate via Cloudflare (etc) Cloudflare - also, upgrade insecure resources, force https, free sll certs, etc. At some point you have to sort all of this out, so it should probably be now.
- #29 Parallelised/individual resources; no waiting! Enables keep-alive by default
- #31 A FAST, wired connection from east coast to west coast USA might take ~60-100ms. A 4g connection to a remote server might take up to ~200ms (‘sluggish’)! HTTP services do round-trips to get resources; HTTP2 services run in parallel. What goes into your first few packets?
- #33 CSS3 is often faster than using images ...Though processing and rendering are your bottlenecks SVGs > JPG/PNG is a good general rule. WebP even better, but challenges. Although… inlining resources makes them harder to cache, and may not be optimal in terms of prioritsation
- #34 Conditional media queries still (can) load all the assets Mechanisms which use display:none still load the image Mechanisms which replace the image src attribute to lazy-load probably aren’t great for accessibility or SEO
- #35 Conditional media queries still (can) load all the assets Mechanisms which use display:none still load the image Mechanisms which replace the image src attribute to lazy-load probably aren’t great for accessibility or SEO
- #36 Base64 encode fonts and icons, and SVGs!
- #37 Doesn’t need an extra request, which still carries overhead
- #38 Up to 40% smaller! Better compression, shared headers, etc.
- #40 Most systems don’t cache 404s (or other errors) Some scenarios mean that requests to errors redirect, download subsequent resources, etc. Cost-intensive. Robots.txt, favicons, app icons, msapplication policies, requests to old URLs, security probes.
- #41 Most systems don’t cache 404s (or other errors) Some scenarios mean that requests to errors redirect, download subsequent resources, etc. Cost-intensive. Robots.txt, favicons, app icons, msapplication policies, requests to old URLs, security probes.
- #45 Your best tool is your brain, and your experience. Use the Chrome waterfall, look for slow request/respond/paint processes. Click on them, and read! It’ll give you tips. Diagnosing bottlenecks
- #48 Longest single wait is often connect + receive* Nothing else can happen until this is done. More time processing, or more time delivering? Don’t ignore, and don’t get obsessed! CDNs; later!
- #55 HTTP/2 will automatically coalesce connections if the host resolves to the same IP and the TLS certificate is valid on both
- #56 Itemised SASS/LESS/JS outputs - only load the bits you need Different expirey and caching methodologies for different assets and types?
- #62 VPS, Heart?
- #63 Email, FTP, SQL, PHPmyadmin. Start to see behind the curtain.
- #64 Gzip RAM allocation Gzip variablles!
- #65 PHP versions, addons, etc
- #69 Be careful about accidentally consuming CPU/GPU, wasting bandwidth, triggering JS, etc https://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility/ - page visibility API is generally supported, and lets you check if a tab is active/visible.
- #71 Edge caching assets easy; html less so. Uncommon. More complex setups; distributed servers/etc.
- #78 Homepage icon prompt Online/offline hybridisation; control local caching, etc Need URL-based nav (which you already need for app indexing) Precursor to sideloaded APKs!
- #82 Consider that maybe a separate app isn’t the future ...That Google want to push for seamless search>content transition (albeit with monetisation) The app store disrupts this; and Google Now scraping apps isn’t a good enough fix. AMP and PWA pages are increasingly gaining access to mobile hardware; seamless transition into apps, and even into VR.